It seems like every time Ediane Gomes turns around, she’s dealing with a new opponent.

Gomes (10-2) was supposed to meet Julia Budd at tonight’s Invicta FC 6 card. Then Charmaine Tweet stepped in for an injured Budd. And when Tweet had visa issues, she was replaced by Tamikka Brents (2-0).

And to make matters just a little bit worse for tonight’s fight, the bout isn’t at featherweight – it’s at a 150-pound catchweight since Brents had such a short time to make the cut. (And even then, Brents came in at 155 pounds and the contract was adjusted to be a lightweight bout; Gomes came in a pound under the original bout agreement limit at 149 pounds at Friday’s weigh-ins.)

Even before Gomes knew Brents was going to miss weight, she was unhappy fighting at 150 pounds.

“I don’t want to fight at 150 pounds,” Gomes told MMAjunkie.com (www.mmajunkie.com). “My weight class is 145 pounds. Now, at the last minute, I’m given this opponent and I can’t even fight at my weight. Even if I don’t have to shed as much weight, I don’t care. It’s upsetting.”

Gomes has won four straight, including both her fights for Invicta. In January, she outpointed Hiroko Yamanaka at Invicta FC 4. And in her promotional debut this past October at Invicta FC 3, she stopped Katalina Malungahu with a first-round rear-naked choke.

Her most recent loss came more than two years ago to Ronda Rousey, the UFC’s women’s bantamweight champ. If she turns her four-fight streak into five, and goes 3-0 for Invicta, under the circumstances, the Brazilian believes she might get a call to fight Saturday’s main event winner between Cristiane Santos and Marloes Coenen, who battle for the promotion’s first featherweight title.

A title shot in Invicta with the winner, should she get past Brents? Sure. Gomes would take that.

“I will hopefully get my third victory in Invicta,” she said. “If after that, Invicta offers me ‘Cyborg’ or Coenen, I’m ready for any of them. If given a chance to win the belt, I’m getting it. I think they would have to offer me that fight. There’s no way around it. I think I’d be the only one who could beat up Cyborg. I don’t think I’m that amazing, but I think my game fits very well against hers.”

It helps that Gomes already was scheduled to fight “Cyborg” earlier this spring at Invicta FC 5. But an injury forced her out of that fight. She said that while “anything can happen” in a fight, “in all likelihood, ‘Cyborg’ will win.” And that, should she win, too, could set the table.

“I think I deserve it,” she said. “And since I was already supposed to fight Cyborg, I think I owe it to the fans.”

First, of course, she has to get past Brents. Gomes said she trains only with male fighters. So fighting a bigger Brents might not feel that different to her.

And with the three opponents for the card, her training has ebbed and flowed constantly through camp. But at the end of the day, Gomes believes there’s one common denominator that wouldn’t matter if she was fighting Budd, Tweet or, now, Brents.

“In the end I’m a fighter and I just need someone to hit – and that someone is going to be Tamikka,” she said.

As the UFC 189 tour made its last stop in Dublin, featherweight champ Jose Aldo was met with a torrent of abuse from the Irish fans. It might have been unpleasant, but it might also have been just what he needed.